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When Angelika Taschen gave a 40th-birthday party here for her husband, Benedikt, the enormous cake was baked in the shape of Chemosphere, their stunning futuristic residence designed by John Lautner in 1960.

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WHEN Angelika Taschen gave a 40th-birthday party here for her husband, Benedikt, the artists Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha and Mike Kelley attended, and so did the photographers Julius Shulman and Helmut Newton. Entertainment included mariachi singers and...

March 15, 2001, Thursday

Five years after the death of the architect John Lautner, two excellent tributes to his work have been published: ''John Lautner'' (Taschen; $29.99) by Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange and ''The Architecture of John Lautner'' (Rizzoli, $75) by Alan Hess,...

WHEN HITCHCOCK'S "Vertigo" first came out, I was so scared by that silly spiral revolving out of the woman's eye during the movie's opening credits that I wanted to run out of the theater. How could I just sit there in the dark and be willingly...

November 27, 1994, Sunday

John Lautner, the architect who created Chemosphere, a flying saucer-like house in the Hollywood Hills, and other well-known contemporary homes, died on Monday at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan here. He was 83. The cause was heart failure, said...